The demand for the Wii and Kinect rival has left the company battling to fulfill a global demand.
Speaking to VentureBeat, Sony’s US senior vice president of marketing Peter Dille revealed that it’s going to be a struggle to keep up with the Christmas rush.
“We have a catch-up problem in all three territories that will last until January of February,” he admitted.
Intriguingly, Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has noted that while they be understocked, that doesn’t necessarily reflect astounding sales figures, and hints that the motion controller could have vastly underperformed commercially.
Following a similar situation in previous years, Nintendo are said to be on top of demand for the festive period, although Microsoft have also confessed that snapping a Kinect off the shelves will get increasingly harder in coming weeks.
Surely this means Sony is admitting they have underestimated the demand for Move, rather than admitting its failure?
I must admit that my feeling as a gamer was that they both needed at least another year in market before I would consider shelling out the cash. The software just isn’t of a quality right now to fully realise the potential of either device in my opinion. I lean more to the ps3 than the xbox anyway, as I already own the camera, but no way would I feel comfortable waving a daft looking glowing ball on a stick.
Give it a year and maybe redesign the wand and then we’ll talk Sony. In the meantime joypad is fine thanks
Having a microphone compared to hands free from the Xbox is a total fail.